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Several accounts and receipts for supplies to Black Refugees, with the following suppliers: Edward King, Robert Hodgers, William Kent, John H. Noonan, Winkworth Allan, Louis DeMolitor, William Anderson, William Sutherland, J. Howe, Son and Company, George Eaton, J. Clark, J. Young & Co, Tobin & Boyle, Doctors Hume and Pyke, William Philipps, Samuel Head, and Hartshorne & Boggs
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Amount Brought Forward £37.3.2

ounce* vij Tinct. opii. Camph. & Bottle @ 10d oz... ,,7.0
3ij Borax 2/. 3 vij Tinct opi. Camph [with? uth?]... ,,9.0
Hi Spin. Cimnan & Bottle 3/6 - 3 oz. Menth. pep with 10/3...
Hij 9ael. Tenek 30/ Hjo Gum. Sang. Dracon 16/..
Hiv auxung 8/ Oz iv acid nitros & [illegible] bottle 1/6 a 10d...
Oz iv acid. Sulphur. x H bottle 3/6...
Hi Tinct. opii. Camph 24th 12/6 - Oz 8 tinct. opii what 2/ doz
Hjs Asimit. Tull with 4/5 Hjs Tinct. opii. Comph with...

We do hereby certify that the prices of Medicine, charged in the above account are charged at the Usual rates of the town at present

Halifax August 8. 1815

[S. Hume?]
F. Carter [??]

Received payment of Thomas N. Jeffery Esquire
Collector of His Majesty's Customs

Samuel Head

*Transcriber's note: the fancy squiggle is an apothecary abbreviation for "ounce" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecaries%27_system


Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 38

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